There are no know incompatibilities. What happens if you delete Postie?
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sniexx
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It seems to be a Crontrol problem, because when I deleted Postie, Crontrol didn’t work. Problems occurred when I activated Postie, that’s why I thought it’s Posties problem, but obviously it’s not.
I had a problem with postie and WP Cron. Manual checking via postie settings panel worked OK, but WP Cron did not work, neither did accessing the URL <hostname>/wp-content/plugins/postie/get_mail.php. All I got was an HTTP 500 Internal server error.
After lot’s of faffing about, I worked out that the get_mail.php file must have execute permissions, but my hosting environment does not give me console/command line access, and my desktop FTP application did not allow me to change the file permissions. I got around this by FTP’ing the get_mail.php file to my desktop then FTP’d it back to the web site cgi-bin directory, this automatically gave it execute permissions. I then used the FTP app to move the file from cgi-bin back to the postie plugin directory and it retained the execute permissions. After this I was able to execute get_mail from both a browser URL and WP Cron. Hurray. Postie also needs to be able to modify file permission during image upload, this was failing for me. I subsequently found that there was an entry in php.ini in the cgi-bin directory that disabled the chmod function (disable_function=chmod). I commented this out and now everything works perfectly. Hope this helps some others. It really shouldn’t be this difficult!
Thanks for letting us know.
